UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Please forgive my blatant ignorance, and thank you in advance for reading.

I am trying to move or copy files as contained in a one row csv document. So essentially I want to instruct a cp or mv command with a csv that will tell terminal/the command what files to grab and copy or move. IE, I want to move a bunch of files from a particular directory, but not ALL.

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again, have a great night.

Try something like...

Code:

tr , \\n < input.csv | while read file; do mv "$file" /path/to/destination; done

Code:

cat file | awk '{ split($0,temp," "); print "mv " temp[1] "Desination" }'

you can pass this to a shell script and can run that script to mv or cp

Code:

mvf() 
{ 
  IFS=, read line
  set -- $line
  mv "$@" /path/to/dir }
}
mvf < infile

Thanks so much Ygor/SJC/Scrutinizer, off to try these out now. Mucho appreciated!